Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,
as follows:

SECTION 1.
Section 31 of chapter 172 of the acts of 1897 is hereby
amended by adding the following sentence:- No public school in the city of
Woburn shall be closed unless the school committee votes to build a new school
on the same lot, or unless the closing of such public school is approved by a
two-thirds vote of the school committee and by a two-thirds vote of the city
council.